Darkaga@kbin.socialtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•If Twitter had existed while Emily Dickinson was alive, she would have been an absolute shitlord with millions of followers
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9 months agoNot too be too pedantic but this is the full, accurate quote from Prejudices: Second Series, “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
Relativity? A light year is a measurement of distance, not time. A ship traveling at.95C would only take 4 months to travel 1 light year from the perspective of the crew. To outside observers it would take a over a year.